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They are terrific and I needed some follow up info and they got if for me.

Rape, man caught sodomizing boy and two NYPD officers caught him.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2008/07/26/2008-07-26_rape_suspect_caught_on_security_camera_a.html

I am trying to find info to post on rapist that was on NY1 and I haven not find info but I came across this and want to post it to show yes it can be male on male and cross any boundary.

NYPD narcotics officers where on the ball and the caught this creep.

breasts poems and postings

It sure feels like I was assaulted and for those interested in violence towards women which starts often with verbal attacks and escalates go to my search engine and type in "breast poems" and click on the link for the large breast print painting I did way back when.  Please note that attacks starting with verbal assaults can also be female on female for all the same twisted reasons from mental illness to jealousy*, etc.  but what ever gender, what ever there is a line people cross and it is no longer about freedom of speech and globally if you could tally it up it usual end with females targeted.   Remeber Tina Negron's last words...I have many posting on her death and her last words where about "control" and I think I mention control in my letter in the Financial Times.   It is a sick power trip and control is part the package.

I also have been published in The Financial Times with regard to Lucien Freud's painting of a nude older woman and my own art but in terms of what I would call geo-sexual inequality including economics to basic human rights.

Another letter that relates to this topic is a letter I had published in the Arts and Leisure Section on Women and Pornography and I have a special homage to Mae West but the bottom line is I talk about violence towards women.   These are old letters but it is clear there is so much acceptable violence on so many levels directed towards girls and women.

I have documented the "East Village verbal assault" which I believe was also in part because I am a woman.

When you do the search under "breast poem" you will see my art and links and than you will see postings about Tina Negron.

Heartbreaking.   Young beautiful woman murdered in the East Village and by a sick individual living amongst us, surprise.   Not at all.   Also remember you don't have to have dated someone or even know them to be a victim of violence of any kind.

* Etc. covers a lot and I want to add -- violence of any kind can also be linked in my opinion to possible abuse of drugs, legal and illegal and alcohol or any combination there of.

I also believe there is more "drug abuse" involving prescription drugs and any combination stated above and not just because of higher population but because pharmaceutical companies are distributing them more than ever to kids on up and use tv and the media to "push them" or advertise them....

NYPD rookie knocks critical mass bicyclist to ground.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2008/07/28/2008-07-28_rookie_cop_in_hot_water_after_video_show.html

I made it clear I have a more positive view of the NYPD and I have been published on their behalf.  This is awful.   I often do not agree with The New York Times editors but way back they wrote a great piece on the NYPD and Critical Mass working together and I agree.

From the video it appears completely unprovoked and violent.   The New York Post editors want to say no harm done but anyone witnessing that and the man being knocked down would most likely disagree.

David Rankin is an excellent lawyer.  He defended a friend of mine successfully.   I hired him.   He is a young impressive lawyer.   As I have said before I see him as a young William Kunstler. Except he doesn't work the media the way Kunstler did and Kuby does.

I have only seen Kuby "work the media" once in my life in person and on 3rd Street, the East Village and he was phenomenal.  

exhaustion

Continue to wake up tired actually feeling exhausted.

I do feel more and more city living is not for me although I remain here for now.  I can't imagine being in my fifties dealing with all the problems that seem to be getting far worse.

Governor Patterson talked about the budgetary crisis and add in the infrastructure, environmental problems and the cost of life here sky rocketing along with the biggest push out yet.   It will make some people happy like the NYU power brokers -- it will mean for buy ups using their not for profit status which the city can't afford anymore. 

Just one of many reasons the city is going bust.   

How ironic that as the city goes further down in every way opposite the sky piercing mega builds, the budget is beyond bust, the mayor continues to expand his mega fortune while in office.   Some people have all the luck.

Karen Love Saves the Day

posting on my site Bloomberg's web of deception

Readers:  I got this posting as a comment on my blog and I am sharing it with you.

I don't know anything about this website and it covers other celebrities, famous people and their families and I am not comfortable with some of it from the quick look I took.

I did call for nudity my Mae West way of asking for transparency from the mayor on down to the community boards and here is a response:

New York Mayor Bloomberg's companies allowed numerous tax warrants, tax liens, Department of Labor judgments to occur that are scattered across the country from California to New York
Here are just several

http://webofdeception.com/#bloomberg

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F03E1D61531F936A3575AC0A9629C8B63&scp=11&sq=Suzannah%20B.%20Troy&st=cse

East Villager is cyber stalking me but considers themselves a hero and true East Villager

Go to the posting on "Eviction Notice Economakis"  

and please be aware I have a cyber stalker.

I asked this anonymous person to leave my blog and me alone and this anonymous East Villager continues to return after telling me how boring I am and a list of other insults and put downs continues to return to harass me.  

Please take the time to read this person's attacks and how this person feels he or she is the real deal,  a true East Villager.

http://suzannahbtroy.blogspot.com/2008/07/eviction-notice-economakis-tompkin.html

The Natives are Hostile, Beautiful boy, what the East Village use to look like

Hammer Brain and 20 years ago Al was on the front page of the NY Post

20 years ago Al of Hammer Brain with a huge Mohawk was on the cover of The New York Post so I am told. He was arrested and it was one of the images that made front page news.

Al is one of the most wonderful people in the neighborhood and so smart!!!!!!! I adore him and he is so supportive of artistic souls, a compassionate intelligent guy and Hammer Brain rocked tonight.

I am so tired I feel my eyes ache. I want to post a few more photos and than I have to rest. Just beyond thrilled to see Al do his thing in Tompkins. He is an amazing soul!

Clayton Patterson documenting Remembering the riots 20 years ago

Clayton Patterson is a kind of Lower East Side Icon along with his partner in life Elsa Rensaa and key documentor of the riots from 20 years ago which -- the parts that I did see where extremely painful to watch because the NYPD did completely lose control and where violent. The video in some ways has probably improved relations because no one wants to revisit that violence on either side and today everyone was peaceful and calm.

Clayton Patterson's video footage of the riots from 20 years ago will be shown at Webster Hall, I think Tuesday Aug, 5th.  (It should also be noted Clayton was arrested a week ago for doing what he does photographing what is happening and I hope the 7th Precinct will drop the charges.  I have a posting on this. http://suzannahbtroy.blogspot.com/2008/07/7th-precinct-nypd-officers-arrest-lower.html)

The message was save the community, shop in small business stores and pick up litter. I was so glad to see my friend Al up there performing tonight. I screamed loudly.

I feel awful because of a horrible and traumatic experience I had to sell my studio in a coop and I am glad to be out and hope never to live in a coop again but I am in what I call a hotel..aka condo and although 4 stories tall it is part of the new development I loathe but it was either that or get killed on taxes and be renter so I chose condo.

I am just glad to be a New Yorker and help any way I can city wide and that includes people, parks and animals.

Eviction Notice Economakis!!!!! Tompkin Square remembering included "let them eat cake Alistair" eviction menace to the community Economakis!

Eviction battle continues "Dead Bakery Walking" Peter Silvestri and Jerry Pecchia

I asked Peter how is it going....He said it is month to month, "Dead Bakery Walking" and we laughed.

Truly it is either laugh or cry and today we all went with laughing.

I am holding up the beautiful art card that you can see in person which includes the image of Filomena, Peter's Mom who died at 94 knowing we the community of the East Village and beyond (because so many consider Filomena and Peter's kindness and soul food an oasis and healthy resource)

we fought and won a mini-miracle so Filomena died at 94 knowing all her hard work and her dream, her son were not thrown out on the street.

Please type in "Whole Earth Bakery and Kitchen" in my search engine and read more postings and help if you can!


Whole Earth Bakery and Kitchen, 130 Saint Marks Place 212-677-7597 

me and police brutality in Tompkins

Yes, I did experience police brutality in Tompkins Square Park -- a very young big huge muscular police man laughed at me.

Ouch!

The only way I can cope is a sense of humor and the Mae West in me is coming out full force so hey mr. young big police man, when I am mayor, even though you are tall enough and handsome enough you are not going to be one of my bodyguards!

I voted for mayor Bloomberg twice not understanding he was going to destroy this city with over the top community crushing development so fast it has endangered our safety with infrastructure and construction  tragedies/fiasco's and more is to come. I did not understand the mayor was not going to be the mayor of the people but he is the mayor of NYU and the mayor of this destructive tsunami of development.

The only feature Mike Bloomberg has that has been greatly enhanced since he became mayor is his huge NYPD bodyguards that surround him like a wall.  When I had my chat with the mayor on the steps of city hall they were cool and gave us space.   When the mayor quickly got the jist of my feelings for his support of NYU he walked away and he and his huge bodyguards heard me yell this, "Honor our FIRE POLICE  and EMS downtown at the WTC site!!!"  Something like that and I asked for a raise for the NYPD and FDNY in the New York Times that directly addressed the mayor and I was published in The Wall St. Journal "Betrayal at Ground Zero" which again talks about honoring our rescue workers down town.

Tonight in Tompkins remembering the riots was peaceful and that includes the NYPD and that is they way it should be.  

The video footage from 20 years ago is devastating and young kids here tonight did not know about it.   No one here was anti-police in fact I think we are all pro-community.  What is amazing is some people have had their teeth knocked out and knees stomped on and they have no bad feelings towards the police.  Our community has come along way towards healing but of course the question is -- will the community survive?  

I have admiration and compassion for the NYPD but I also have seen some of the video footage and put it this way, I am glad the police officers today representing the 9th Precinct were layed back and cool as much as people had a great time and one of the terrific people running the show spoke powerful words about saving our community, about shopping in small stores and not mega stores and picking up litter!!!!  Anyone who reads my blog knows how I feel about litter bugs.

The stresses of the city, politics, what feels like corruption,  NYC politics feel incestuous and a club -- an orgy of admiration club as the people continue getting crushed as gentrification becomes supersification people are getting crushed with higher Con Ed bills, higher taxes to come, higher prices at the supermarket, the gas pump so the biggest crush in NYC is coming, so say bye bye.

I continue to feel drunk with exhaustion, I try to keep my eyes on my cats as they sit outside on our terrace which is hard.   Just bounced my iphone on the ground again.   I had Karl and 5 other guys protectively point to my iphone  on the ground at Tompkins.  I really need to get away with my cats asap but it isn't easy.   My inner beauty switch is off.  It was just great to feel the love from community members especially in Peter's Bakery, more on that to come.

Orange flowers Houston Street by Bowery

Lorcan and Jeannie

1 Billion dollar pension fund set to burst by David Seifman

http://www.nypost.com/seven/07272008/news/columnists/1b_pension_bomb_set_to_burst_121847.htm

David Seifman's piece "One Billion pension bomb to burst" is just part of the horror show that tax payers will have to absorb and the other is the delipidated infrastructure which is either bursting, exploding or constantly being expanded mostly for sky piercing hotels, condos and mega dorms. The streets are in such bad conditions they seem like they were built around the year the water pipe broke on West 10th Street which was just before the Civil War.

It all ready feels like  New Yorkers are getting killed and not just on taxes including future hikes to absorb the billion dollar pension bomb.
Suzannah B. Troy

photos in and around the East Village and Bowery...the boarded street is the Bowery intersection by Houston Street...welcome to the Bloomberg New York you haven't heard about and you can only experience first hand.   All my dear readers know how I feel about the death toll from construction related injuries and infrastructure related accidents like the gas explosion from Friday that was like a bomb severely burning people.

I voted for Bloomberg twice but he has shown me one rendering of what he and Amanda Burden had in mind in terms of supersized development I would have voted against him.

This is a horror show above ground, below ground and in terms of future hikes in everything including as David Seifman points out taxes hikes to absorb the pensions.

Shelter from the storm, get out my Jack Maple book

I was in The Strand circa what seems like a 100 years ago before the traumatic actual move (as oppose to the on going trauma) and I always visit the crime section and the law section and sometimes the two intersect. Anyway the Jack Maple book practically fell off the book shelf and into my hands and I like facial hair. It is such a great read, even though there were aspects of his life well put it this way he was a character but an Olympic heart and he was such an over achiever when it came to policing...you must read this book.

Hello Jack, can you hear me....I wish you and I could chat about the city. I saw some young transit police officers chase someone and the perp jumped in to the subway train. They just shook their head in defeat.


Not chubby over weight Jack Maple. Jack Maple would have sprinted up the stairs and taken a cab to the next stop which he did as a young transit cop and caught the guy! He was not built like an Olympic gold medalist sprinter but clearly he had the heart of one.

By the way, he go in big trouble with his superior officers way back when for daring to arrest someone when he saw a crime on his way to work in the subway. In the old days each dept was very separate so a transit cop was to only handle transit, etc. and the separate departments did not communicate.

Jack Maple emphasizes transparency in his book and he suggests xeroxing his guidelines in the back of his book and handing them in which I did to the 9th and to the Commish's office because I am a character too.  (When I stop communicating that means I give up but I do believe in the NYPD and they continue to evolve and our the most dynamic police officer as well as the largest.)

I do think Commish Kelly has done a good  job considering he came in after 9-11 with completely new responsibilities that are defining as we go post 9-11.    Our mayor closed fire houses and allowed the NYPD starting salary to be lowered.   The mayor won't even give the fire, police and ems their rank at the memorial and the mayor has erased the largest loss of rescue workers in our city's and our nation's history at the fence which you would think he would want to honor.

I really wish the mayor had to wear a blue uniform for even half a day and walk the streets or police the housing projects and in uniform. 

The population is rising and the NYPD numbers dropped and the responsibilities and complexities continue.   

ps  When I wrote my piece on wanting transparency (used the provocative word nudity or naked to get readers attention) from the mayor on down to the community boards I was thinking of the Jack Maple.)

Did you know Community boards members get free parking placards? I did not know this.

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2008/07/25/2008-07-25_manhattan_community_leaders_set_example_.html

Well click here and read on.

Community Board 2 is getting some praise for giving them up.

I don't imagine Community Board 3, the is the East Village, Lower East Side and the Bowery will be doing so, do you?

Please calculate how much that is worth to a person to have a free parking placard in dollar bills.

I never thought about that but that is like getting paid in gold because parking is so scare.

Hmmmm.

When I went to my first community board meeting it was the most unfriendly welcome, actually all of them were pretty unfriendly like it was a closed club.   I asked David McWater about why they were so unfriendly and he said they just have to get to know me.  Yeah right!

I won't attend any more meeting and here is why.  The last was when the very pretty Christine Shakespeare of NYU-dom reprimanded Andrew Berman for singling out poor NYU from all other not for profit institutions and I did respond "Because you are the only not for profit institution to build a river of mega dorms down Third Avenue.  David McWater who owns many bars and no one on the community board and community board SLA 3 consider this a conflict of interest and manger let me know that what I said, when I said it was unacceptable.  Thanks for protecting NYU's interest.  Could you imagine me living next to St. Ann's being so outraged by the stupidity or her question that I respond with an answer that she should know especially with the salary they are paying her.

By the way, pretty Christine liked my ideas about community outreach resource centers and how I wanted the people in the projects included in this outreach, etc. and to date....nothing and that was before NYU set a world record building St. Ann's mega dorm.

I don't want to run for a community board position but if I did I would make sure everyone in the community knew who I am and that I want to hear them and represent the community if it means setting up an office on a park bench in a park or by a subway.   I could not live with myself representing a community that does not know I represent them.

Community boards need way better community outreach, accountability and if need be turn it into a democracy where people vote and no placards especially until the community can say, yes we know what is a community board, who represents us and when the meet and that the community's voices are heard and the board shows documentation of how they have responded.

Thurmon Munson!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurman_Munson

On facial hair and baseball -- it works!!!!!!!!  Click on the above link to see the photo and my mustache theory.

Thurmon Munson is my most favorite Yankee.  I watched him play ball on tv, have his faded signature and the teams (but not here in my home aka hotel room).   And of course I love Babe Ruth.

http://www.cmgworldwide.com/baseball/munson/photo_1.htm

best sports reporting on Joba, felt like having a cigarette after reading and I don't smoke! Thanks John Harper, that was a really good read!

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2008/07/26/2008-07-26_untitled__harper27s-1.html

Best sports reporting on Joba by John Harper.  It was so good I felt like smoking a cigarette afterward but I didn't because I don't smoke!  Thanks John Harper, that was a really good read!

p.s.  The New York Post is my favorite sports sections because they are good reporters and they publish my letters but John's reporting hit the spot.  Sorry guys.  My favorite sports letter is the one about the Yankees passionless play and wanting them to have to give some of their bloated salaries back to the city for firefighters, police, ems, homeless, libraries, schools, etc.  when they didn't win the world series.

p.s.  I think the Yankees and the NYPD should both allow facial hair.  Look at the photos from the 60's and 70's!  Hello?

Dead guy for sale! Cheap! East Village humor...

Sense of humor is survival and I think God has a worse sense of humor than  Howard Stern. 

Anyway, just one of the guys having a laugh...

At least it is not one of the notorious landlords but our local characters.